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EntangleCodec: A Unified Discrete Audio Tokenizer via Semantic-Acoustic Entanglement
Hui Li, Yangfan Gao, Junlin Shang +4
Audio tokenizers serve as the discrete interface between continuous audio and Audio Language Models (ALMs), but existing tokenizers often struggle to support both understanding and…
Safety in Embodied AI: A Survey of Risks, Attacks, and Defenses
Xiao Li, Xiang Zheng, Yifeng Gao +35
Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Embodied AI) integrates perception, cognition, planning, and interaction into agents that operate in open-world, safety-critical environments. As…
Steering LLMs via Scalable Interactive Oversight
Enyu Zhou, Zhiheng Xi, Long Ma +9
As Large Language Models increasingly automate complex, long-horizon tasks such as \emph{vibe coding}, a supervision gap has emerged. While models excel at execution, users often s…
Outcome Accuracy is Not Enough: Aligning the Reasoning Process of Reward Models
Binghai Wang, Yantao Liu, Yuxuan Liu +13
Generative Reward Models (GenRMs) and LLM-as-a-Judge exhibit deceptive alignment by producing correct judgments for incorrect reasons, as they are trained and evaluated to prioriti…
CL-bench: A Benchmark for Context Learning
Shihan Dou, Ming Zhang, Zhangyue Yin +24
Current language models (LMs) excel at reasoning over prompts using pre-trained knowledge. However, real-world tasks are far more complex and context-dependent: models must learn f…
SciAgentGym: Benchmarking Multi-Step Scientific Tool-use in LLM Agents
Yujiong Shen, Yajie Yang, Zhiheng Xi +17
Scientific reasoning inherently demands integrating sophisticated toolkits to navigate domain-specific knowledge. Yet, current benchmarks largely overlook agents' ability to orches…
Adaptive Test-Time Compute Allocation for Block Diffusion Language Models in Complex Reasoning
Yi Lu, Deyang Kong, Jianing Wang +8
Recent advances in block diffusion language models have demonstrated competitive performance and strong scalability on reasoning tasks. However, their test-time compute allocation…
Learning Query-Specific Rubrics from Human Preferences for DeepResearch Report Generation
Changze Lv, Jie Zhou, Wentao Zhao +13
Nowadays, developing reliable DeepResearch-style long-form report generation remains challenging, as training and evaluation lack verifiable reward signals. Accordingly, rubric-bas…
FRoM-W1: Towards General Humanoid Whole-Body Control with Language Instructions
Peng Li, Zihan Zhuang, Yangfan Gao +16
Humanoid robots are capable of performing various actions such as greeting, dancing and even backflipping. However, these motions are often hard-coded or specifically trained, whic…
OpenNovelty: An LLM-powered Agentic System for Verifiable Scholarly Novelty Assessment
Ming Zhang, Kexin Tan, Yueyuan Huang +20
Evaluating novelty is critical yet challenging in peer review, as reviewers must assess submissions against a vast, rapidly evolving literature. This report presents OpenNovelty, a…
OctoBench: Benchmarking Scaffold-Aware Instruction Following in Repository-Grounded Agentic Coding
Deming Ding, Shichun Liu, Enhui Yang +12
Modern coding scaffolds turn LLMs into capable software agents, but their ability to follow scaffold-specified instructions remains under-examined, especially when constraints are…
Memory in the Age of AI Agents
Yuyang Hu, Shichun Liu, Yanwei Yue +44
Memory has emerged, and will continue to remain, a core capability of foundation model-based agents. As research on agent memory rapidly expands and attracts unprecedented attentio…
Which Reasoning Trajectories Teach Students to Reason Better? A Simple Metric of Informative Alignment
Yuming Yang, Mingyoung Lai, Wanxu Zhao +13
Long chain-of-thought (CoT) trajectories provide rich supervision signals for distilling reasoning from teacher to student LLMs. However, both prior work and our experiments show t…
Locate, Steer, and Improve: A Practical Survey of Actionable Mechanistic Interpretability in Large Language Models
Hengyuan Zhang, Zhihao Zhang, Mingyang Wang +26
Mechanistic Interpretability (MI) has emerged as a vital approach to demystify the opaque decision-making of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing reviews primarily treat…
Can Deep Research Agents Retrieve and Organize? Evaluating the Synthesis Gap with Expert Taxonomies
Ming Zhang, Jiabao Zhuang, Wenqing Jing +18
Deep Research Agents increasingly automate survey writing, yet existing benchmarks do not jointly test whether they retrieve the papers experts consider essential and organize thos…
Nex-N1: Agentic Models Trained via a Unified Ecosystem for Large-Scale Environment Construction
AGI Team, Yuxuan Cai, Lu Chen +62
The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) from passive responders to autonomous agents necessitates a fundamental shift in learning paradigms -- from static imitation to incent…
AgentPRM: Process Reward Models for LLM Agents via Step-Wise Promise and Progress
Zhiheng Xi, Chenyang Liao, Guanyu Li +12
Despite rapid development, large language models (LLMs) still encounter challenges in multi-turn decision-making tasks (i.e., agent tasks) like web shopping and browser navigation,…
Counteracting Matthew Effect in Self-Improvement of LVLMs through Head-Tail Re-balancing
Xin Guo, Zhiheng Xi, Yiwen Ding +6
Self-improvement has emerged as a mainstream paradigm for advancing the reasoning capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs), where models explore and learn from successf…
Parrot: A Training Pipeline Enhances Both Program CoT and Natural Language CoT for Reasoning
Senjie Jin, Lu Chen, Zhiheng Xi +9
Natural language chain-of-thought (N-CoT) and Program chain-of-thought (P-CoT) have emerged as two primary paradigms for large language models (LLMs) to solve mathematical reasonin…
Critique-RL: Training Language Models for Critiquing through Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning
Zhiheng Xi, Jixuan Huang, Xin Guo +15
Training critiquing language models to assess and provide feedback on model outputs is a promising way to improve LLMs for complex reasoning tasks. However, existing approaches typ…
BAPO: Stabilizing Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for LLMs via Balanced Policy Optimization with Adaptive Clipping
Zhiheng Xi, Xin Guo, Yang Nan +18
Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently become the core paradigm for aligning and strengthening large language models (LLMs). Yet, applying RL in off-policy settings--where stale…
From Scores to Preferences: Redefining MOS Benchmarking for Speech Quality Reward Modeling
Yifei Cao, Changhao Jiang, Jiabao Zhuang +11
Assessing the perceptual quality of synthetic speech is crucial for guiding the development and refinement of speech generation models. However, it has traditionally relied on huma…
Unlocking the Essence of Beauty: Advanced Aesthetic Reasoning with Relative-Absolute Policy Optimization
Boyang Liu, Yifan Hu, Senjie Jin +5
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are well suited to image aesthetic assessment, as they can capture high-level aesthetic features leveraging their cross-modal understanding…
MagicGUI: A Foundational Mobile GUI Agent with Scalable Data Pipeline and Reinforcement Fine-tuning
Liujian Tang, Shaokang Dong, Yijia Huang +21
This paper presents MagicGUI, a foundational mobile GUI agent designed to address critical challenges in perception, grounding, and reasoning within real-world mobile GUI environme…